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Justin Trudeau's majority win on Monday, which included a number of surprising defeats of incumbents, means 25 of B.C.'s 42 representatives in the new Parliament weren't sitting in the House of Commons before the election.

But don't assume they're all going to behave like stumbling rookies on the first day of training camp.

Two served in the federal Parliament before the 2011 election, while many of the others have been successful in business, law, and other levels of government.

Among the newbies are Liberal cabinet contenders like Jody Wilson-Raybould and Harjit Sajjan, as well as potential opposition question period stars like Conservative Dianne Watts in Surrey and New Democrat Rachel Blaney on Vancouver Island.

You will also find among them a former New Democrat and an ex-Conservative who joined Trudeau's bandwagon.

Here's a snapshot of the new and not-necessarily-that-new faces, who in many cases will need some time hiring staff and finding the routes to the washrooms before they can start answering constituents' emails.

Terry Beech (Liberal/Burnaby North-Seymour): This wunderkind was Canada's youngest city councillor when elected in Nanaimo at age 18.

A decade and a half later he could add Oxford MBA, entrepreneur, professor, philanthropist and now MP to his resumé after his surprise victory in a riding the Liberals had no expectation of winning when the election was called.

Todd Doherty (Conservative/Cariboo-Prince George): The businessman campaigned to be a "present" MP.

That was a veiled reference to his Tory predecessor, Dick Harris, an avid golfer who was accused of taking the riding for granted by living in sunny Osoyoos, roughly 800 kilometres south of Prince George. A more polished politician than Harris, Doherty has an excellent opportunity to play a higher-profile role in his party than his predecessor.

John Aldag (Liberal/Cloverdale-Langley City): Another MP who stumbled onto the minimum $167,400-a-year job thanks to Trudeaumania 2.0 in B.C., Aldag brings both an MBA and a pan-Canadian perspective to Ottawa. He has lived in six provinces and two territories, thanks to his career at Parks Canada.

Ron McKinnon (Liberal/Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam): When James Moore surprised the political world by retiring, veteran B.C. Liberal MLA Doug Horne stepped forward and appeared to be in a good position to keep this turf Tory blue. And if Horne was going to be vulnerable, the smart money was placed early in the campaign on the NDP candidate. Instead, this Liberal businessman and political blogger clung to Trudeau's coattails to win.

Gord Johns (NDP/Courtenay-Alberni): Call him an eco-entrepreneur. Johns, who defeated veteran Tory minister John Duncan, is a former Tofino municipal councillor who founded a number of firms, including a "natural clothing company," based on the belief "you can grow a business while caring for the environment."

Alistair MacGregor (NDP/Cowichan-Malahat-Langford): Want to get elected? Start by being a political staffer. It worked for Christy Clark, John Horgan and Adrian Dix. MacGregor is another MP who parlayed his background and contact-making working for a politician - in his case the now-retired Jean Crowder - into a job on Parliament Hill.

Carla Qualtrough (Liberal/Delta): She is a human rights lawyer and a Paralympic Games medalwinning swimmer. Visually impaired since birth, Qualtrough is viewed as having cabinet potential.

Ken Hardie (Liberal/Fleetwood-Port Kells): What a change. The former MP for this riding, Conservative Nina Grewal, was profoundly media-shy and had little public visibility. Now the community is represented by someone with no problem facing barking reporters. The former broadcaster was a spokesman for both ICBC and later TransLink.

Stephen Fuhr (Liberal/Kelowna-Lake Country): A former CF-18 fighter pilot and aviation industry entrepreneur, Fuhr might have a shot at cabinet given he's the only B.C. Liberal MP outside Metro Vancouver. A lifelong Tory voter who "never smoked a joint in my life," he switched to the Liberals in response to the Harper government's "irresponsible" plan to buy costly and unproven F-35 fighter jets.

Wayne Stetski (NDP/Kootenay-Columbia): The former Kootenay regional manager for B.C.’s environment ministry, he also served as Cranbrook mayor. Active on local conservation issues, he also coached minor league hockey and baseball.

Jati Sidhu (Liberal/Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon): Few expected a Liberal win in this riding. Sidhu is a longtime Fraser Valley philanthropist and businessman involved in the agriculture and real estate sectors.

Sheila Malcolmson (NDP/Nanaimo-Ladysmith): This rookie has been elected four times to the Islands Trust Council, serving in her last term as chair, and her campaign biography makes clear her top interest is the environment.

Joe Peschisolido (Liberal/Steveston-Richmond East): The bilingual lawyer and former MP will be sitting in Parliament thanks to a move that caused controversy inside and outside his party, as he stepped in only after Wendy Yuan was prevented from running. The party claimed it was due to a discrepancy in her resumé, but she alleged that she was dumped because party fundraiser and former cabinet minister Raymond Chan saw her as a threat to his status in Metro Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community. Peschisolido has a see-saw political pedigree, starting out as a youth co-ordinator for Jean Chretien's successful1990 leadership bid, later joining the Reform party, and was elected in Richmond (defeating Chan) as a member of the Canadian Alliance, Reform's successor party. He later crossed the floor to re-join the Liberals before his defeat in 2004.

Mel Arnold (Conservative/North Okanagan-Shuswap): A former president of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, the Salmon Arm resident and businessman served on his city's environmental advisory council for eight years and in 2010 was appointed to the B.C. government's Species at Risk Task Force.

Jonathan Wilkinson (Liberal/North Vancouver): A Rhodes Scholar and former senior executive with several firms, he has an unusual pedigree that includes serving as NDP youth co-ordinator in Saskatchewan. He also served as a constitutional negotiator for that province during the Charlottetown accord talks in the early 1990s. He is touted by some Liberals as a potential cabinet minister.

Dan Ruimy (Liberal/Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge): He won this riding in a classic three-way battle in which he, the secondplace Conservative and thirdplace New Democrat were separated by 4.3 percentage points. And he is one of many Liberal MPs who owes his current position entirely to Trudeau, as this was a Conservative riding which, if it fell, was expected to go NDP. Ruimy is an entrepreneur and former army reservist who owns Bean Around Books Tea in Maple Ridge.

Richard Cannings (NDP/South Okanagan-West Kootenay): The author of a dozen books on B.C.'s natural history, he is a former B.C. Biologist of the Year who served for eight years as co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

Harjit Sajjan (Liberal/Vancouver South): The former Vancouver detective is also a decorated veteran in four operational deployments as a reserve army officer specializing in intelligence - three in Afghanistan and one in Bosnia.

Dianne Watts (Conservative/South Surrey-White Rock): The popular former Surrey mayor probably entered politics assuming a cabinet post, but Harper's failed campaign means she'll be slogging away on the opposition benches. With the party heading into a leadership race, smart candidates will be courting her heavily in hopes of getting an endorsement.

Randeep Sarai (Liberal/Surrey Centre): A lawyer and businessman, Sarai has been active in efforts to find ways to discourage young residents of his community from joining gangs. Sarai has some controversy in his past, as he was found guilty of professional misconduct by the B.C. Law Society in 2005, though he was accepted back into the society five years later after it concluded he was honest and had good dealings with his community. Sarai ran and won in this riding after losing an epic fight for the Liberal nomination in neighbouring Surrey Newton to Sukh Dhaliwal, his new colleague in the Liberal caucus. Let bygones be bygones?

Sukh Dhaliwal (Liberal/Surrey Newton): Dhaliwal is a professional engineer and businessman who served as a Surrey MP from 2006 to 2011. Like Sarai, he has had some brushes with controversy. Last year, he pleaded guilty to Income Tax Act charges, and in 2008 he wrote to a U.S. judge on House of Commons stationery in support of a convicted international drug trafficker, Ranjit Singh Cheema, before Cheema was sentenced to a five-year jail term.

Jenny Kwan (NDP/Vancouver East): The former B.C. MLA will be the shrunken New Democrat caucus' star in the Chinese-Canadian community, now that Olivia Chow is no longer in the picture after losing her Toronto election bid. But like Sarai and Dhaliwal, she arrives with some baggage after reimbursing the Portland Hotel Society roughly $35,000 for foreign trips her family took when her then-husband was working for the PHS. She said her husband billed the society, a non-profit that supports marginalized people in the Downtown Eastside, without her knowledge.

Rachel Blaney (NDP/North Island-Powell River): Trouncing her Conservative rival in a riding with traditionally strong Tory support, Blaney is a strong speaker viewed by some in the party as an up-andcomer. She is former employment officer with the Homalco First Nation and is married to its former chief. She most recently headed an immigrant welcome centre, twice winning the local chamber of commerce's "not-for-profit of the year" award.

Jody Wilson-Raybould (Liberal/Vancouver Granville): This newcomer is getting mentioned regularly by Ottawa pundits as a likely cabinet contender, a sure sign that she has admirers in Trudeau's inner circle. Wilson-Raybould, the daughter of former B.C. First Nations leader Bill Wilson, is a former Crown prosecutor who recently served as B.C. regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

Pamela Goldsmith-Jones (Liberal/West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Seato-Sky Country): She's the former West Vancouver councillor and mayor who left municipal politics in 2011 to get an executive MBA and launch her own consultancy firm.

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(These are snapshots based on information on the candidates’ website and articles posted on their Wikipedia pages. If you believe important information has been omitted please email the reporter.)

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